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ISBN: 9781784632175
Extent: 64pp
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 15-Oct-20
Publication Status: Out of print
Series: Salt Modern Poets
Subject: Poetry by individual poets
Trim Size: 198 x 129mm

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Rose with Harm

Synopsis

Winner of the East Anglian Book Award for Poetry

Shortlisted The Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize 2021

Heartbreaking detail permeates Hardisty's deftly musical debut. These are love poems, conjuring relationships just beginning, gone astray, turned wrong, or fading from view. The reader is on tour through love's phantasy, a parade of fragments in lost rooms all set within time slips that draw us back and forth across countries and continents – and in dreams that rise and coalesce around absence. Written over a decade, these tightly-accomplished lyrics will delight those familiar with Hardisty's writing and find a wide new readership for those yet to discover this important new writer.

Praise for this Book

‘I admire not only the rhythms… but also the shrewd, touching syntactical placements… these matters of harmony and melody give the emotion its breath and its bite.’ —Robert Pinsky

‘A really beautiful and mature collection… the voice is true, smart, brave, melancholy—and original.’ —Gail Mazur

‘Displaying his considerable lyric gifts, Daniel Hardisty’s poems are steeped in a tone of authoritative maturity. Dramatizing love’s vagaries in crisp, clear, effortless-seeming verse, this wise work is exquisitely made.’ —Jacob Polley, Northern Writer’s Awards

Collections: 2020 New Titles, All, Author: Daniel Hardisty, Books VAT Zero Rated, Just One Book 2022, New poetry for lockdown, Poetry by individual poets

Category: Extent: 64pp, Format: Paperback, Publication Date: 15-Oct-20, Publication Status: Out of print, Series: Salt Modern Poets, Subject: Poetry by individual poets, Trim Size: 198 x 129mm